Today we began our studies at La Academia Latinoamerica, a Spanish school with a location in Cusco. The flexible program allows travelers to study for weeks (even months) at a time. Yesterday we met our instructors (we both have private instruction). The first two hours of class are for grammer and the second half is for practical application of the language (i.e. reading in Spanish, listening to a song in Spanish). There are also extracurricular activities. Today we took salsa dancing lessons.
We went to the museo de sitio del qoricancha this morning. It was interesting to see how the Incas purposely mal-formed the shape of their children's heads using small frames. People with the most elongated heads were considered the most elite. By the way, mothers and midwives were in charge of that body modification.
Today we also took some time to plan some travel to the Amazon when my dad comes to Peru. While doing so, there was a rather large strike of construction workers invovling riot police with their shields. I almost thought that I would have to use my knowledge from The Worst Case Scenario Guide, in the article "How to Escape a Riot". Luckily, everything was rather calm.
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